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The Download: the AI Bill of Rights, and fixing the Nord Stream pipelines
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The White House just unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights The news: US President Biden has today unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights, which outlines five protections Americans should have in…
The White House just unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights
The White House wants Americans to know: The age of AI accountability is coming. President Joe Biden has today unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights, which outlines five protections Americans should have in the AI age. Biden has previously called for stronger privacy protections and for tech companies to stop collecting data. But the…
Get ready for the next generation of AI
To receive The Algorithm in your inbox every Monday, sign up here. Welcome to the Algorithm! Is anyone else feeling dizzy? Just when the AI community was wrapping its head around the astounding progress of text-to-image systems, we’re already moving on to the next frontier: text-to-video. Late last week, Meta unveiled Make-A-Video, an AI that generates…
Here’s how the Nord Stream gas pipelines could be fixed
Until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines were a key part of Europe’s energy infrastructure. In the fourth quarter of 2021, the Nord Stream lines supplied 18% of all Europe’s gas imports. Half of Russia’s gas imports to Europe came through Nord Stream 1—a record high. (Nord Stream 2,…
The Download: Europe’s AI crackdown, and Iran’s internet resistance
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI What’s happening: The EU is creating new rules to make it easier to sue AI companies for harm. A bill unveiled…
The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI
The EU is creating new rules to make it easier to sue AI companies for harm. A bill unveiled this week, which is likely to become law in a couple of years, is part of Europe’s push to prevent AI developers from releasing dangerous systems. And while tech companies complain it could have a chilling…
The Download: text-to-video AI, and China’s big methanol bet
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meta’s new AI can turn text prompts into videos What’s happened: Meta has unveiled an AI system that generates short videos based on text prompts. Make-A-Video lets you type in a string of…
Can we find ways to live beyond 100? Millionaires are betting on it.
Hello, hallo, and bonjour! This week’s Checkup is coming to you from Switzerland. It’s still dark when I arrive at the Grand Bellevue hotel at 7 a.m., and it’s tipping with rain. But I’ve braved the elements to make it to an early “longevity workout.” It’s the first event scheduled at an aging conference I’m attending…
China is betting big on another gas engine alternative: methanol cars
As the Chinese government works to reach ambitious carbon goals—an emissions peak by 2030 and neutrality by 2060—the country has become a global leader in the adoption of electric vehicles. But that’s not the only greener car alternative it’s pursuing. Earlier this month, on September 16, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it…
Meta’s new AI can turn text prompts into videos
Meta has today unveiled an AI system that generates short videos based on text prompts. Make-A-Video lets you type in a string of words, like “A dog wearing a superhero outfit with a red cape flying through the sky,” and then generates a five-second clip that, while pretty accurate, has the aesthetics of a trippy…
The Download: Amazon’s home-guarding robot, and covid’s violent legacy
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Amazon has a new plan for its home robot Astro: to guard your life The news: Amazon announced yesterday that its home robot, Astro, will be getting a slew of major updates aimed…
How AI is helping birth digital humans that look and sound just like us
Digital twins capture the physical look and expressions of real humans. Increasingly these replicas are showing up in the entertainment industry and beyond. It gives rise to some interesting opportunities as well as thorny questions. We speak to: Greg Cross, CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines Sounds from: 2PAC HOLOGRAM | LIVE Coachella Recording | High…
Amazon has a new plan for its home robot Astro: to guard your life
Amazon’s home robot, Astro, will be getting a slew of major updates aimed at further embedding it in homes—and in our daily lives, the firm announced on Wednesday. Broadly speaking, the new features offer more home monitoring. The capabilities include some standard fare: Astro will be able to watch pets and send a video feed…
A bionic pancreas could solve one of the biggest challenges of diabetes
In a recent trial, a bionic pancreas that automatically delivers insulin proved more effective than pumps or injections at lowering blood glucose levels in people with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition that causes a person’s level of glucose, or sugar, to become too high because the pancreas can’t produce enough…
Growth means composability, brick by brick
Business leaders are heading for composable infrastructures, putting aside large and bulky traditional systems. Demand for increased flexibility and scale is driven by rapidly advancing technology and rising customer expectations. Gartner likens composable infrastructures to a structure made of simple building blocks. This modular structure permits fast changes and responds quickly to new demand, traffic…
The Download: China’s non-coup, and building better batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How the false rumor of a Chinese coup went viral If you’re on Twitter and follow news about China, you likely have heard a pretty wild rumor recently: that President Xi Jinping was…
The pandemic created a “perfect storm” for Black women at risk of domestic violence
Starr Davis was smitten when she met a handsome stranger with flawless skin and a wide smile during a brief trip to Houston in March 2020. He was charming and persistent; she gave him her phone number and they started talking. Their whirlwind romance took a major turn when she told him that she was…
How the false rumor of a Chinese coup went viral
Hi, and welcome back to China Report! If you are on Twitter and follow news about China, you likely have heard a pretty wild rumor recently: that President Xi Jinping was under house arrest and that there was about to be a major power grab in the country. First of all, let me be very…
Maximize data outcomes by investing in people and systems
In any enterprise, digital transformation is not only a technology transformation but enables business transformation itself, driving new products, solutions and innovations. Having an efficient data strategy is critical to any successful digital transformation but requires careful investment into both people and systems. “To achieve that goal, availability of good data, of the right data,…
How robots and AI are helping develop better batteries
Around the start of the year, Carnegie Mellon researchers used a robotic system to run dozens of experiments designed to generate electrolytes that could enable lithium-ion batteries to charge faster, addressing one of the major obstacles to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. The system of automated pumps, valves, and instruments, known as Clio, mixed…
The Download: asteroid deflection, and Florida’s approaching hurricane
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Watch the moment NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid What’s happened: NASA is celebrating the success of humanity’s first test of a planetary defense system: crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid in…
Watch the moment NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid
NASA is celebrating the success of humanity’s first test of a planetary defense system: crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid in order to change its orbit. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, was intentionally smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos at 7:14 p.m. US Eastern time last night, spelling the end to a successful…
How DeepMind thinks it can make chatbots safer
To receive The Algorithm in your inbox every Monday, sign up here. Welcome to the Algorithm! Some technologists hope that one day we will develop a superintelligent AI system that people will be able to have conversations with. Ask it a question, and it will offer an answer that sounds like something composed by a human…
How one vineyard is using AI to improve its winemaking
This episode, we’re doing something a little bit different. Join us as we take a trip to a Californian vineyard to learn about how it’s deploying sensors and other forms of AI. We meet: Dirk Heuvel, vice president of vineyard operations, McManis Family Vineyards Credits: This episode was produced by Jennifer Strong with help from…
Hybrid cloud wins rely on data protection
After silicon chipmaker Broadcom acquired CA Technologies in 2018 and Symantec Enterprise in 2019, it decided to invest in hybrid cloud environments, which integrate and orchestrate public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises services. The CA and Symantec acquisitions onboarded vastly different tech stacks and operation workflows, with a variety of hosting scenarios: on-premises, colocation, and…
The Download: dual-driving AI, and Russia’s Telegram propaganda
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This startup’s AI is smart enough to drive different types of vehicles The news: Wayve, a driverless-car startup based in London, has made a machine-learning model that can drive two different types of…
YouTube wants to lure creators away from TikTok with cash, but it won’t say how much
In 2007, YouTube made a decision that created a career out of what was previously just a hobby: the company announced it would give over half of the revenue it earned running ads on videos to creators themselves. Fifteen years later, that creator cut—55%—supports the nearly 400,000 people in the US working 40-hour weeks as…
This startup’s AI is smart enough to drive different types of vehicles
Wayve, a driverless-car startup based in London, has made a machine-learning model that can drive two different types of vehicle: a passenger car and a delivery van. It is the first time the same AI driver has learned to drive multiple vehicles. The news comes less than a year after Wayve showed that it could…
Russia’s battle to convince people to join its war is being waged on Telegram
When Vladimir Putin declared the partial call-up of military reservists on September 21, in a desperate effort to try to turn his long and brutal war in Ukraine in Russia’s favor, he kicked off another, parallel battle: one to convince the Russian people of the merits and risks of conscription. And this one is being…
How we’ll transplant tiny organ-like blobs of cells into people
To the naked eye, organoids aren’t much to look at. They’re basically tiny blobs. Closer inspection reveals their true complexity: these lab-grown balls of cells can resemble miniature organs. So far, organoids have mostly been used for research. But teams have started transplanting them into animals with the hope of curing disease. Humans are next—albeit…
The Download: YouTube’s deadly crafts, and DeepMind’s new chatbot
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The YouTube baker fighting back against deadly “craft hacks” Ann Reardon is probably the last person whose content you’d expect to be banned from YouTube. A former Australian youth worker and a mother…
The YouTube baker fighting back against deadly “craft hacks”
Ann Reardon is probably the last person whose content you’d expect to be banned from YouTube. A former Australian youth worker and a mother of three, she has her own cookbook, has baked for the BBC, and once made a coin-size apple pie for two baby chicks. Since 2011 she’s been using her YouTube channel…
DeepMind’s new chatbot uses Google searches plus humans to give better answers
The trick to making a good AI-powered chatbot might be to have humans tell it how to behave—and force the model to back up its claims using the internet, according to a new paper by Alphabet-owned AI lab DeepMind. In a new non-peer-reviewed paper out today, the team unveils Sparrow, an AI chatbot that is…
The Download: authoritarian tech, and tower-building drones
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The world is moving closer to a new cold war fought with authoritarian tech Despite President Biden’s assurances at Wednesday’s United Nations meeting that the US is not seeking a new cold war,…
The world is moving closer to a new cold war fought with authoritarian tech
Despite President Biden’s assurances at Wednesday’s United Nations meeting that the US is not seeking a new cold war, one is brewing between the world’s autocracies and democracies—and technology is fuelling it. Late last week, Iran, Turkey, Myanmar, and a handful of other countries took steps toward becoming full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization…
Patients immersed in virtual reality during surgery may need less anesthetic
Immersing patients in virtual reality could help reduce the amount of local anesthetic needed for surgery, a new study has found. A team of researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston split 34 patients undergoing elective hand surgery into two equal-size groups. One group was given a VR headset and offered a range…
Watch this team of drones 3D-print a tower
A mini-swarm’s worth of drones have been trained to work together to 3D-print some simple towers. One day, the method could help with challenging projects such as post-disaster construction or even repairs on buildings that are too high to access safely, the team behind it hopes. Inspired by the way bees or wasps construct large…
The modern enterprise imaging and data value chain
During the past two decades, the health care sector has undergone a rapid and far-reaching digital transformation. But digitalization has generated a new challenge: information overload. According to one estimate, the volume of health care-related data being generated digitally doubles every 73 days. Much of it is stored in discrete silos—such as digital imaging and…
The Download: long covid inequality, and connecting Native communities
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’ve only just begun to examine the racial disparities of long covid Liza Fisher is preparing for a busy day. In about an hour, her mother will drive her to a clinic, where…
Broadband funding for Native communities could finally connect some of America’s most isolated places
The rolls of fiber-optic cable currently unwinding in a remote corner of northwest Montana represent a vital, long-overdue change for the region. Rural and Native communities in the US have long had lower rates of cellular and broadband connectivity than urban areas, where four out of every five Americans live. Outside the cities and suburbs,…
China Report: What’s up with all of Biden’s executive orders on China?
Welcome to the very first China Report newsletter! I’m Zeyi Yang, and every Tuesday I’ll bring you news about China’s technology industry. This week, let’s unpack recent actions on China from the Biden administration. Lately, President Biden has been getting busy with executive orders that are, without naming China, very related to China. In the…
We’ve only just begun to examine the racial disparities of long covid
Liza Fisher is preparing for a busy day. In about an hour, her mother will drive her to a clinic, where she will receive IV fluids and iron treatments for her anemia. When the IV bag is empty, she’ll head to an adaptive gym, where she’ll don compression pants and take a class for people…
How retail is using AI to prevent fraud
Retailers face an evolving landscape of fraud tactics each day. It’s why companies are increasingly turning to AI to try and catch threat patterns never seen before, and block attacks before they ever happen. While this approach lends itself to efficiency, it’s also one that relies on increasingly complex data profiles of consumers. In this…
The Algorithm: AI-generated art raises tricky questions about ethics, copyright, and security
Welcome to The Algorithm 2.0! I’m Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Technology Review’s senior reporter for AI. I’m so happy you’re here. Every week I will demystify the latest AI breakthroughs and cut through the hype. This week, I want to talk to you about some of the unforeseen consequences that might come from one of the hottest…
How retail can pivot to autonomous stores
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Retailers are considering autonomous store technology as an alternative to manned stores. This paper explores the challenges, the customer journey, the different concepts of autonomous stores, and steps that can be taken to maximize the benefits of autonomous technology. Click here…
AI is more than a buzzword: It’s now being deployed on ships and golf carts
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Platform as a service (PaaS) solutions allow for higher-level programming with dramatically reduced complexity; the application’s overall development can be more efficient. This article shares two compelling examples showing how a PaaS solution developed in the cloud was transferred to the…
CIO vision 2025: Bridging the gap between BI and AI
Nearly a decade after they emerged from science labs, AI and machine learning are firmly embedded in enterprise technology environments and are starting to generate value for many businesses. It is increasingly difficult to find organizations that have not at least explored AI use in their business in some way. In a survey, conducted by…
The Download: AI-generated art and YouTube’s algorithm
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it. Those cool AI-generated images you’ve seen across the internet? There’s a good chance they are based on the works of Greg…
Hated that video? YouTube’s algorithm might push you another just like it.
YouTube’s recommendation algorithm drives 70% of what people watch on the platform. That algorithm shapes the information billions of people consume, and YouTube has controls that purport to allow people to adjust what it shows them. But, a new study finds, those tools don’t do much. Instead, users have little power to keep unwanted videos—including…
Zero trust closes the end-user gap in cybersecurity
You may have noticed it’s a little harder to get around in cyberspace. More six-digit authorization codes texted to your phone. More requests to confirm the name of your first pet or fourth-grade teacher. More boxes to check to “trust this device.” Overall, having to prove more often that you are you. It’s not your…
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